Franklin Bronze Precision Components announces John Nichols as General Manager. John Nichols comes to Franklin Bronze with 30 years of experience in castings with a concentration in investment castings. John has held leadership roles in general management, sales, operations and technical engineering. As General Manager, John will lead the Franklin Bronze team to develop and grow the FBPC business with a…

Franklin Precision Castings is pleased to announce the purchase of a new DN Solutions DMN 4500S Vertical Machining Center. The high-performance machining center gives their in-house machine shop faster tool changes, increased tool capacity, and reduction in setup times. Franklin Precision Castings partnered with Allegheny Machine Tool Systems for the purchase and installation of the machining center. “With…

In the automotive industry, combustion engines are still assembled mostly manually. Researchers from Fraunhofer are developing procedures and methods to automate assembly processes to continuously improve the quality of the engines. The use of the latest technologies helps to eliminate uncertainties during engine assembly. Valves, nozzles, pistons , spark plugs and camshafts - the heart of each car is its…

The Fusion Factory, developed by XERION BERLIN LABORATORIES with added support from Fraunhofer IFAM, is a compact additive manufacturing production line that uses fused filament fabrication (FFF) technology to produce ceramic and metallic components. By bringing it to the new ICAM, Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden will be able to, according to a press release, “strengthen its competence as a partner for additive…

It is with great pleasure that Fraunhofer IFAM in ⚓ Bremen has commissioned its third low-pressure casting machine, a Kurtz Ersa AL 16-12 SC. The new casting machine offers a clamping area of 2.4 x 1.5 m² for casting moulds up to 3,500 kg, a melt volume of 110 liters (or ~ 300 kg of aluminum) and a casting pressure of up to 1.0 bar. Thanks for the accomplishment go above all to the colleagues from the…

The low-pressure die casting process (LP casting for short) enables the production of high-quality castings with outstanding mechanical properties, especially using the light metal aluminum. Low-pressure die casting is preferably used for the production of solid castings with thick walls. The process is well known for casting light alloy wheels for automobiles, chassis components with high safety…

The annual Barbara Conference of the VDG Bavarian regional group in cooperation with GTM - Foundry Technology Munich (Fraunhofer IGCV + TUM utg) under the direction of Dr. Steffen Klan and Prof. Dr. Wolfram Volk has become a much appreciated fixture. Industry participants from all over Bavaria, but also from other parts of Germany and Austria, enjoy making the pilgrimage to Garching near Munich. This is…

In a recent analysis, Fraunhofer ISI assumes that battery-electric drives will also become established in heavy-duty applications in the commercial vehicle sector; fuel cells will remain a niche application. The decisive factor for the switch to battery-electric vehicles is the energy cost advantage compared to hydrogen and diesel Catharina Modahl-Nilsson, Chief Technical Officer of TRATON GROUP, sees this…